1. Anything I missed?
2. I've only played an elemental wander before. Any significant differences between the two builds in playing that I should know of?
3. Is CI / Ghost Reaver / Blood Rage better than life / EB for this build?
4. Additional suggestions are more than welcome.

Passive tree should probably be Shadow start, grabbing most of the crit nodes and wand physical damage nodes while going through the Witch area slowly towards the Templar area.

1. Anything I missed?
2. I've only played an elemental wander before. Any significant differences between the two builds in playing that I should know of?
3. Is CI / Vaal Pact / Blood Rage better than life / EB for this build?
4. Additional suggestions are more than welcome.

that's exactly a guy I'm leveling right now.
you need to build a strong mana engine, so I snuck down to get that mana regen in ranger, and the nodes in witch, as well.
I use discharge with that, occasionally, and I'd like to get blood rage working when I have enough leech/loh coming back --- I'm only about lvl 30.

I;m working through the witch +power charge, and would like to get up to bully.

If you're going for physical damage hatred seems like a good option. Shouldn't matter that you're not particularly aiming to buff elemental damage. Hatred is kinda like an increased physical damage aura except you get the bonus of it being cold damage (and the small downside of not leeching, but no big deal)
If you're going for wand, tempest shield is nice as well.

I'd choose those two over haste. Haste is nice but it's so expensive.

Also, physical wander doesn't need to be ES/CI/GR, but if you want it to be that's fine.

If you're going for physical damage hatred seems like a good option. Shouldn't matter that you're not particularly aiming to buff elemental damage. Hatred is kinda like an increased physical damage aura except you get the bonus of it being cold damage (and the small downside of not leeching, but no big deal)
If you're going for wand, tempest shield is nice as well.

I'd choose those two over haste. Haste is nice but it's so expensive.

Also, physical wander doesn't need to be ES/CI/GR, but if you want it to be that's fine.

Yeah, I probably should've clarified that I arranged the auras according to how important I think they are, descending order of course. I put Hatred as the top aura.

I overlooked Tempest Shield completely. Might be interesting. Thanks for the headsup.

Yeah Haste I really don't think is good enough to warrant a spot, but I put it there for inclusion sake.

Reason I went for CI is that I noticed that the Shadow to Templar path has A TON of intelligence nodes and very very very very little armor and health nodes. I feel that if that's the path to be taken, it's pretty much impossible to go Life build. What is your idea on that?